keepreal: The price for this Venus Laowa 12mm F2.8 lens is pretty steep. A similar lens which has both both auto focus and aperture linkage also would be, even with as good optical quality, except perhaps from one of the prime lens manufacturers - no pun intended.

I am beginning to wonder if the growing number of manufacturers whose lenses lack auto focus and aperture linkage to the camera body is because they do not know how to do the electronics. Samyang, as far as I am aware do provide AE on Canon but only for one of their lenses. But at least their lenses are often cheap in spite of good optics, which may be the reason.

The nearest competitor will be the new Samyang XP 14mm F2.4 for the same price, whose samples I have seen look a lot nicer at 100%.

keepreal: The price for this Venus Laowa 12mm F2.8 lens is pretty steep. A similar lens which has both both auto focus and aperture linkage also would be, even with as good optical quality, except perhaps from one of the prime lens manufacturers - no pun intended.

I am beginning to wonder if the growing number of manufacturers whose lenses lack auto focus and aperture linkage to the camera body is because they do not know how to do the electronics. Samyang, as far as I am aware do provide AE on Canon but only for one of their lenses. But at least their lenses are often cheap in spite of good optics, which may be the reason.

For less than this price you can buy a Tokina 16-28mm F2.8 including autofocus. Such lens is a lot more complex mechanically, electrically and in amount of glass. There is no reason this Laowa should be that expensive, the more so because the image quality seems barely okay below f/11.

First SLR a Yashica (FR or FX) bought second-hand in 1993. Upgraded to Canon EOS 500n in 1997. Added Bronica S2A in 2002. First DSLR Canon EOS 5D in 2006. 2014 - currently, Fujifilm X-T1. I used also some point and shoots, the first one in 1987.

VisualFX: Glossy screens and photography/developers don't mix! What is with glossy screens? Please start making matte screens so I dont have to turn off all lights in my room! Otherwise i see reflections in the screen.

Okay, then you don't get touch functionality.

For example you can get a Dell XPS 15 9550 either with 4K touch screen or a full HD matte screen without touch.

Kalhor: On "Image Quality" page set it to show "RAW @ 3200 ISO" and choose a FF camera for comparison. You will know how good is X-Trans sensor to capture images with less noise and sharper details in smaller body with smaller lenses.

One more important reason for X-trans sensor is, it captures more green light which it helps to capture nicer colors of between Red and Blue. And that's why colors looks better in Fuji cameras compared to others.

It can only do so at the cost of blue and red. Those channels are more noisy.

That's the question an average reader is going to ask after looking at those extremely boring pictures. Readers aren't going to mull in their heads if the lens worth the money, they are going to question the very need for that lens.

Perhaps you lack creativity to imagine its uses? Which have been demonstrated many times since the invention of 16-35mm-like zooms some 20 years ago.

Or are you only commenting on the sample pictures? In that case, generally they are boring no matter what lens.

TORN: Funny that the Fuji actually was the most exciting thing since sliced bread but nearly nobody here will buy one. I wonder if a crop of 1.3 compared to a much smaller and affordable full frame camera really is a big deal? It surely would be a big deal if it was affordable. Great that Fuji dropped the xtrans on this one. There is hope. ;-)

Silently we are all hoping the body will sell for $/€ 3500 and the lenses under 1500.

rfsIII: With all this medium format happiness coming our way, it's time for DPR to do some serious stories on tripods and speedlights. It's going to be extremely tough to get truly sharp shots without either a rock-solid tripod or very short flash duration.

At the 100% zoom level, shake does not relate to pixel size but to angular resolution and motion.

oscarvdvelde: This should be sold under €6000 if we take the sensor surface as representative of camera cost. The step between APS-C and full frame is larger (1.5²) than between full frame and fuller frame (1.22²).

But it already does work quite well. High-end APS-C is €1600, times 2.25 gives high-end full frame at €3600. m43 would be 4 times cheaper than full frame which would be €900. Divide all by 2 for lower end products.

Maybe when this 44x33 format becomes more competitive and the sales good, the price for a high-end body will be €5300 while a lower-specced body could eventually go below €3000.

Ouchy: Around six years ago I found myself with enough spare cash to buy a EOS 5 mkII and 24-105L lens kit for £1900.

6 years later, with a better job, but more responsibilities, I have a similar amount of cash to spend on a camera - I find that two iterations later the camera now costs two and a half times the price. Does it run on a fusion core or something?!..

The 6D line continued the old 5D line. The current 5D line is probably what rumors thought the 3D would be or a cheaper continuation of the 1Ds line.

yoms: Thank you for the quick review of the 5D Mark III. It has just landed here in France :)

As a main one-shot AF shooter, I would have been interested in more details about focus accuracy, especially with the 5 dual cross-type AF points, rather than tracking.

Would you say focus is so accurate using one of these 5 points that it's mirrorless accurate? I would consider using them all the time, albeit at the expense of cropping/reframing in post to place my subject where I wanted initially to be, if I'm sure focus will be eye-lash accurate almost all the time.

HMF70: The official price on the lens have been out for about a month now, so that is old news. Here is a review (swedish) https://www.cyberphoto.se/info.php?article=irix15blackca on the lens, where they explain that Irix 15mm is overall better lens compared to 14-15mm primes from Samyang, Canon, Nikon and Zeiss, and almost as sharp as Canon 16-35/4L, Nikon 14-24/2,8 och Tamron 15-30/2,8. The only thing the article doesn't tell is how the lens handle coma, and that is crucial if you want to use the lens for astrophotography.

I almost forgot... It doesn't work on Sony e-mount with Metabones adapter.

Coma is handled very well by many wide angle primes. It's the astigmatism people really seem to worry about while calling it coma.